“…Recently, many clinical trials have been performed on the treatment of nonunion or delayed union with bone marrow or bone marrow cultures, including osteoprogenitor cells that differentiate into osteoblasts [Hernigou et al, 2005;Kim et al, 2009;Gomez-Barrena et al, 2011;Braly et al, 2013;Guimaraes et al, 2014;Le Nail et al, 2014;Sugaya et al, 2014;Hernigou et al, 2016]. As nonunion or delayed union is caused by multiple complicated factors, the strategy of reducing their incidence or preventing their occurrence merely by addressing the issues related to physicians' techniques will only be partially successful [Herscovici et al, 2000].…”